AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa
NOV. 5-11, 2021
A week in which the border between Belarus and Poland saw migrants caught up in a political showdown between the two countries, climate talks and the protests around the the COP26 summit in Glasgow continued and AP paid a visit to an ICU and morgue in Bucharest as virus cases surged in Europe. There were floods in Bosnia and a march by far-right groups in Warsaw. Sporting highlights included Ronaldo being mobbed at a World Cup qualifier in Ireland and the All Blacks in ominous form in a rugby international in Italy.
This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Europe and Africa. The selection was curated by Moscow photographer Pavel Golovkin.
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FILE - Migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere rest on the ground as they gather at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. Poland increased security at its border with Belarus, on the European Union's eastern border, after a large group of migrants in Belarus appeared to be congregating at a crossing point, officials said Monday. The development appeared to signal an escalation of a crisis that has being going on for months in which the autocratic regime of Belarus has encouraged migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere to illegally enter the European Union, at first through Lithuania and Latvia and now primarily through Poland. (Leonid Shcheglov/BelTA via AP, File)
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FILE - Funeral house employees remove the coffin of a COVID-19 victim from the University Emergency Hospital morgue in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. Over the past weeks Romania reported record numbers of daily new infections and deaths. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

FILE - Members of far-right groups light flares as they try to dominate the annual Independence Day march which because of their participation turned violent in recent years, in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, November 11, 2021. Warsaw mayor and courts banned this year's event due to its history of violence, but the right-wing ruling authorities defied the ban and gave the march state event status to allow it to go ahead.. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

FILE - A regional train passes the fog covered city of Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, early Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

FILE - Cars are engulfed by flood waters, seen in an aerial image, in the Rajlovac suburb of Sarajevo, Bosnia, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021. Heavy rain caused severe flooding for a second day in Bosnia, prompting evacuations, causing power outages in most of the capital, closing a key facility for oxygen used for COVID-19 patients and submerging roads in some parts of the Balkan country as civil protection teams and local residents struggled to put up sand bag barriers to prevent further spread of the flood. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - Extinction Rebellion activists, covered in sheets, demonstrate demanding a renewable energy future for Africa during the Africa Energy Week, held at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021. The protests coincide with the second week of the COP26, UN Climate Summit in Glasgow. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht, File)

FILE - A member of staff of the nearby St Thomas' Hospital rests on the National Covid Memorial Wall in London, Tuesday Nov. 9, 2021. The British government is due to decide about mandatory vaccination for NHS staff.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

FILE - An iceberg delivered by members of Arctic Basecamp is placed on show near the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. The four ton block of ice, originally part of a larger glacier, was brought from Greenland to Glasgow by climate scientists from Arctic Basecamp as a statement to world leaders of the scale of the climate crisis and a visible reminder of what Arctic warming means for the planet. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

FILE - Polish military police officers check cars near the border to Belarus, that was closed because of a large group of migrants camping in the area on the Belarus side who had tried to illegally push their way into Poland and into the European Union, in Kuznica, Poland, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

FILE - Migrants walk at a tent camp set by migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere gathering at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus, late Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. The European Union has accused Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko of encouraging illegal border crossings as a "hybrid attack" to retaliate against EU sanctions on his government for its crackdown on internal dissent after Lukashenko's disputed 2020 reelection. (Ramil Nasibulin/BelTA pool photo via AP, File)

FILE - From left: New Zealand's Sam Cane, New Zealand's Finlay Christie, and New Zealand's Richie Mo'unga, stops Italy's Renato Giammaroli, during a rugby union international match between Italy and All Blacks New Zealand at Rome's Olympic Stadium, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

FILE - An employee of a funeral house adjusts his protective suit as he carries the coffin of a COVID-19 victim for burial at the University Emergency Hospital, in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. Hundreds of people have been dying daily for the past two months in Romania which has been among the hardest-hit in the current virus onslaught raging through Central and Eastern European nations where far fewer people have been inoculated than in Western Europe. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru, File)

FILE - French fisherman Sylvain stands aboard the trawler Le Chant des Sirenes (The Mermaids' song) as they fish at the limits of the French-UK waters, off Granville, Normandy, Tuesday, Nov.9, 2021. France has threatened to bar British boats from some of its ports and tighten checks on boats and trucks carrying British goods if more French vessels aren't licensed to fish in U.K. waters. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga, File)

FILE - A pitch invader tries to reach Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo, 2nd left, during the World Cup 2022 group A qualifying soccer match between the Republic of Ireland and Portugal at the Aviva stadium in Dublin, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)